| Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Instead of "Hello Major Tom. Are you receiving? Turn the thrusters on. We're standing by." the german version goes "Hello Major Tom, can you hear us? Do you really want to destroy this project?" which strongly implies that he decided to throw the mission. Even his last message for his wife is less sentimental in the original. The ending is also slightly different, with Major Tom musing that a "light is leading me through space, I'm coming soon ... I'm starting to feel cold". I definitely prefer the german to the english version, if only for the reason that they had to modify the lyrics a lot to still achieve the rhyming effect the original has. |
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